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Tuesday, September 1, 2026

Wells Fargo employee alleges disability bias and retaliation in new lawsuit - hcamag.com

Her own employer's probe backed her - then came the ratings cuts and displacement, she alleges

A former Wells Fargo employee says the bank's own investigation substantiated her discrimination and retaliation complaints - then, she alleges, the retaliation continued.

According to a complaint filed in the US District Court for the Western District of North Carolina on July 28, 2026, the employee sued Wells Fargo Bank, N.A. for disability discrimination and retaliation under the Americans with Disabilities Act Amendments Act, or ADAAA. The case is Blair-Foster v. Wells Fargo Bank, N.A., No. 3:26-cv-610.

The filing says she joined the bank in 2019 and worked on regulatory matters tied to Wells Fargo's 2016 Sales Practices Consent Order. It alleges she earned "Exceeds Expectations" ratings in 2021 and 2022, then saw her scores fall - to "Meets Expectations" in a 2023 mid-year review, and to "Inconsistently Meets" at the end of 2024.

Those downgrades came with no coaching, corrective action, or performance improvement plan behind them, the complaint alleges. It says one manager told her, before retiring, that an executive director had directed him to lower her rating against his own recommendation.

The employee raised internal complaints of "discrimination" and "retaliation," according to the filing. It says an independent third-party investigator, in a review conducted between February and October 2024, substantiated those complaints. The bank then restored her bonus and moved...



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